A office worker got a good bargain on a franchise for a garage and grill at the MTAs reduce Manhattan domicile - by allegedly faking the let papers, the Daily News has learned.For the last twelve years, David Khoukhachvili has been rowdiness the group in to meditative he had a bona fide franchise for his businesses at 2 Broadway, according to justice writings unblocked this week.When the MTA took over the construction in 1998, it insincere the leases of alternative tenants.Khoukhachvili is charged of backdating a fraudulent request to have it see similar to a groundwork parking garage and the Bull and Bear grill were old tenants."Khoukhachvili and others would be positive a long-term and increasing tide of distinction for the parking garage since the MTA would be stranded with the franchise for decades with Khoukhachvili creation a low monthly franchise payment," FBI representative George Khouzami pronounced in a affidavit.The rapist censure doesnt guess how most income the MTA lost out on, but Khoukhachvili was profitable $13,000 a month with 3% increases.An unclear auxiliary declare blew the lid off the scheme.Khoukhachvili, a authorised proprietor of the U.S. from the Republic of Georgia who lives in New Jersey, is free on $1 million bail."It is my bargain the franchise was current and we intend to plea the case," pronounced his counsel Steven Brounstein.The MTA declined to criticism on the censure filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.Its not the initial failure at the building.Federal prosecutors charged the MTAs former developer on the plan and a cackle of kinship officials and mobsters who fleeced the group to the balance of $10 million for arrogant costs.The former developer, Fred Contini, pleaded guilty and was condemned to trial in 2007.With Pete Donohue
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